NW leg of stoney trail now open

[R_Ethug]

All the way from royal oak to panorama.. was on it today

my god i wonder what the cops will be like because its soooo smooth and baron its not funny.. probably will be racer/speedy city in another week or so but today i was so tempted to hit 200+ but wife was in the car haha

anyways nice to see progress being made

[stefan]

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i noticed! didnt go on it though.

[Kona Bear]

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Well it's about time. It was ready weeks ago!

[Benjamin]

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I guess I am going to have to go on there without the wife soon. Considering I pass over it pretty much whenever I leave the house. Costco is now 6-7 mins away, I am going to have to put a spending limit on the debit card for the wife now :(

[R_Ethug]

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yea trust me when you get on it behind the dump its like a ghost town race track! i'm sure the cops will be out in full force soon enough tho..

i swear a few weeks back i saw cars racing on it at 1AM.. looked like it to me anyways

[852VR6]

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Just went on that road, its so smoooth AWESOME

[popp]

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It took me 8mins to get to work on it today. Yesturday it took me 22min taking the normal way!

[Stonewall]

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Drove it the other day, it is going to take the wife 5 mintues to get to work when she starts her job.

[Red90]

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What do they have the speed limit set at?

[R_Ethug]

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oddly only 100.. and its only 2lanes each wa??? but big shoulders i thought it was going to be 3-4 lanes each way and like 110 or 120 limit.

[stefan]

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never understood the massive shoulders calgary builds.

is it done all the way to deerfoot then?

[RONDAL]

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never understood the massive shoulders calgary builds.

is it done all the way to deerfoot then?

never understood wide shoulders?

never driven anywhere else in the world?

wide shoulders mean when there are accidents and breakdowns you dont lose an entire lane of traffic. The US has it right with a shoulder wide enough to park a semi on. Means breakdowns and accidents dont stop the entire flow of traffic

[stefan]

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how does that make sense? If they painted in an extra lane, you'd at least have an extra lane on good days. Call it something clever like "HOV/Emergency lane"... never driven anywhere else in the world? Its not that unheard of. Waste of resources. It's not like there is a curb. Pull off the road off you have to. And if you are in an accident that you can't pull away from, you still lose a lane of traffic, but now you only have one lane.

[dJ]

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lololol. I agree with stefan on this one. I would prefer an extra lane or two than big shoulders, but thats just me. I've gone down this ring road far too many times before it was even close to be completed. I hope it really does help with the congestion of traffic.

[popp]

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they built it wider so that one day when there is a need to add a lane the real estate is already there..........